It Happened One Night – Trailer
The original Romantic Comedy featuring Hollywood heart throb Clark Gable and the equally charming Claudette Colbert which swept the boards at the 1934 Oscars not onlt taking best picture, but also Best Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay. Made for a comparatively palrty $325,000 this remains one of the most iconic movies of the 1930s.
Quick Plot
Ellie defies her father and marries gold digger Westley but is rescued by her extremely wealthy father before the marriage can be consummated. She runs away and meets up with Peter and surprise surprise falls for him (well it is Clark Gabel!). Eventually she reunites with her father who buys off Westley at the alter allowing Ellie to run off again this time with Peter. Oh we do love a happy ending.
One of the most enduring scenes is the hitch hiking one below, which has been copied many times.
Classic Hitch Hiking Scene
@hippiebabie95 Then just get classier !
thats right, doc
you sure as hell will! =D
NICE LEG.
My Grandy Mary adores this movie. She is 101 years young. 🙂
The first time i watched this movie was at like 2am, I put my headphones on so my parents didn’t hear that I was still awake…. I laughed so hard, my mum came rushing in to see what the hell I was doing, she thought we were being robed or something lol very good movie!
i love this movie so much. great film
this is one of my favorite movies of all time. they just don’t make movies like this anymore.
@Spac3Lordz have you seen the movie? Clarke Gable doesn’t exactly play a gentlemen. He is typically portrayed as a rugged, roughish man tasked with “fixing” the emotionally desperate woman, which he does wonderfully! This movie is no different.
I love this movie :’)
I simply adore this movie. Clark Gable is just divine. It’s really too bad men don’t come like that anymore. The era of gentleman is long gone and it is extremely depressing to me.
@woodrobot8 How about just not hitting women at all? Then you don’t have a problem.
@MsCasati Oh why is dames so dizzy???
Like many men I empathize with Gable, women are so overcome with emotions they seldom do anything sensible. One minute they want you to show your mastery over them by slapping them around, then they get all weepy and say you don’t understand them. Or claim you abuse them when they wanted you to be rough. And being charming is totally a matter of perspective, serial killers are often very persuasive and charming.
@MsCasati you an me both ;D
wow…i must looked it up cuz my teacher making me do a report on claudette colbert
What in this movie would be considered a recipe for a good romantic comedy?
@FFAGLITCHES you seriously thought that randomly picking on an unknown female on the internet will make you macho ? ..amazing what inferiority can lead to.*ignores*
@MsCasati He mayh have all that but he has the dick the size of a pea, and my cousins is the size of your grans neck and has rickled as your mums pussy
@Jeffieboi sex appeal to stop a car has been used over and over. that could be the origin. todays writers get a lot of credit but so often, they use a lot of stuff thats already been done (the same way it was once done) and get away with it bcuz ppl forgot about or have never seen the old movies. i can think of plenty of examples
lmao! what i just wrote was true. clark was hella smooth. he got away with a lot on screen. lol